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How many people actually wrote Cocoa apps in Java? The only Java apps of the era that I remember used non-native UIs, and were painful. Whereas I'd be shocked
by scott_karana 12y ago
How many people actually wrote Cocoa apps in Java?
The only Java apps of the era that I remember used non-native UIs, and were painful.
Whereas I'd be shocked if Swift wasn't adopted wholesale by iOS developers.
- pjmlp 12y agoThis is not about the present. Rather back when Mac OS X 10.0 was being released and Apple was unsure if developers would be willing to write Objective-C code. They created their own JVM, with Objective-C runtime support (JavaBridge) and let the developers choose. At the same time, Apple representatives did sessions at UNIX heavy user groups, like CERN, where they sold Mac OS X as a better BSD, and Java as first class language was part of the feature list. As they saw developers were comfortable adopting Objective-C in their toolchains, the JavaBridge was dropped.